Re:My own case mod... - 2006/01/02 00:54Try to get a performance case, and a nice design !!!! You've started very well dude.
By the way, is it hard, to cut the side panel? I'm changing my poor case(but nice design lol), and I need to cut out the side panel, to put a window in lol!!!
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sbohdan
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Re:My own case mod... - 2006/01/03 07:35it's not hard to cut the side panel. of course you need the right tools to do it. first you make the holes on the 4 corners and then you cut between . I have no intentions to change my case- i love it. it's all screwless and well designed, also spacious so I can install anything in it without the worry to run out of space. I also worked to much (mod) to change it now.
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Re:My own case mod... - 2006/01/03 08:47Sorry, I explained wrong. Try to keep your case with a great design(cause you see inside), and to keep the performance it gives you, cause there a big airflow in there
That's what I wanted to say dude
Keep working hard on it, it will make a nice case!!!!!!!!
I got a suggestion for you. All you need now, is to hide some cable. I got a friend that used motherboard foam(not sure if its the right word), and he used that to hide cable on the bottom of his case.
I don,t know if your case has easy way, to put the cable, we don't see it.
So thats what I suggest you
And Again, Great job
I love modded case!!!! and I love yours !!!
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Re:My own case mod... - 2006/01/06 07:58I wanted to start off by saying that anything I say is considered a CRITIQUE (the what works for it and the what could be better). Please dont get offended at what I say when I'm trying to help you. I know you did alot of work on it already, and some take it personal when that much time is invested on a piece.
I like modded cases as well, and I see alot of work already but keep in mind a few things.
1. Where is the air entering and exiting? This is important because you need to have the air exiting to match the amount coming in (or as close to it as possible - not the 1:1 ratio, 1enter :1exit. I mean CFM. 2 slow fans entering :1 fast that matches or exceeds the total of the 2 entering - that sort of thing). 2. Is the air movement/circulation consistant in moving ALL the air through the case? I have seen cases with lots of fans overheat faster than cases with fewer fans. Reason being, if you have to many fans blowing air around, you can create a pocket of heat that wont leave (it cant leave because of how the fans around it are moving the air). More fans isnt exactly better cooling. It can actualy hinder performance and increase temps.
I noticed that you were going to have a seprate duct for the cpu. Keep in mind that if it had its own exit you would not be dumping hot air into the case (but thats hard to do, but I'm sure you could come up with something ingenuitive since it does have a tube/case around that heatpipe).
Why do you have 2 fans over the video card? That could create turbulance in that area and affect the air to where you want it to go negatively(an air pocket or redirect it another place).
Do you have fans on the front of the case pulling air in? If so, that is a lot of air going in, but where is it exiting? When air is moving from high pressure to low pressure it cools (a can of dusting air will do this after alot of use), but it has to leave at a good rate for it to do this. You are creating a high pressure system (high heat = fast moving molecules) that needs to go outside of the case, and if it cant, all its doing is keeping the heat (in circulation) that you are trying to get rid of by adding more fans. You want to have the air changing pressure as it leaves the case to have the maximum effect, not as it enters.
The power supply will also have fans (generaly fans that move air slowly for noise reduction), but I would not consider that a very reliable exit for the amount of air that will be entering as far as I see.
And lastly, the cables. I mean damn (lol - ), thats a mess. Try to sleave all the power cables together and have each cable break away from the main group when it is real close to where it gets plugged into. If you need more length, try getting some same gauge wire (and same colors for less confusion) and just make new connects the length you need. That will clean up a large majority of the mess. I am doing that in my new case just because I'm anal and hate digging through wires to get to someting and then rechecking the connections twice after to make sure they are still on well.
This is my case before the cable sleaving (havent finished it yet) ...
This case has a seprate chamber for the power supply's air so it will not affect the rest of the case. The main chamber only has the exit fan set at the lowest speed.
I hope this has helped in some way, and didnt confuse.
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Re:My own case mod... - 2006/01/10 20:08Ok, I have to address some issues you guys brought up: 1. the messy cables - it was just temporary as I was doing some work on the case and experimenting with stuff but it's been fixed since I'm pretty much finished.
2. airflow. it's a chieftec case so it has no fans on front of the case (the front is reserved for HDD's that are positioned sideways. intake is the 2 fans you can see. a 12cm one blowing on the video card and the humongous SI-97 that cools it and an 80mm fan blowing through a duct directly to the CPU - that one enters the shroud around the asus starice CPU cooler and is being sucked right out the case by a 12cm fan on the back of the case. the PSU has an 80mm fan that sucks air out on the buttom , so no I think the airflow is pretty stabilized. the inside case temp is only 21C which is less then in my room (25C). I think that's pretty good and proves the good airflow. BTW, what you can't see is a fan on the other side of the case blowing through the case sideways - clearing the heat from my 3 HDD's right out the case. I hope this answers all objections
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Re:My own case mod... - 2006/01/10 20:48well i said it before if it works run with it ... just that aero chamber or whatchamacallit ( cpu cooler ) just gotta go That thing butt ugly especially in good case like that ... . LOL .....
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Re:My own case mod... - 2006/02/07 04:52Raptor wrote: well i said it before if it works run with it ... just that aero chamber or whatchamacallit ( cpu cooler ) just gotta go That thing butt ugly especially in good case like that ... . LOL .....
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Re:My own case mod... - 2006/02/14 21:51little questions...
From What I see, its an intake fan on the side panel? or its how it has been made?
it keeps my overclocked prescott (3.2@3.71Ghz) at 32C idle and 47C@ full load.I think some water blocks can't do this.
not bad.. and cheap waterblock maybe .
by the way, that kind of cooler blow the heat out of the cooler, then thats why we need fan to that heat out of the case, like my XP-90C with a panaflow 92mm, and the 80mm in front... The cooler will drop like maybe 3C to 8C at idle, but like 20C when full load.... thats why thoses coolers are very good. My opinion, I prefer the XP-90C cause of its look, but we don't care when it's an OCing computer !!!
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Re:My own case mod... - 2006/02/14 22:00oh, and I would like to see more picture of it like the front, and if it's done, again insde !!!!
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Re:My own case mod... - 2006/02/21 18:04sorry but I'm in new york right now. I will post back as soon as I'm back home
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!!!! You've started very well dude.
!!!
), thats a mess. Try to sleave all the power cables together and have each cable break away from the main group when it is real close to where it gets plugged into. If you need more length, try getting some same gauge wire (and same colors for less confusion) and just make new connects the length you need. That will clean up a large majority of the mess. I am doing that in my new case just because I'm anal and hate digging through wires to get to someting and then rechecking the connections twice after to make sure they are still on well.
... just that aero chamber or whatchamacallit ( cpu cooler ) just gotta go That thing butt ugly especially in good case like that ... . LOL .....